159 Quotes About Gnan

Scriptures are as ‘helping problem’. Scriptures only give directions. Scriptures are like a thermometer. Can you grind a thermometer and give it as medicine all day?

Kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) will not leave through suppression, they will leave through Gnan (Self-realization).

The one who is afraid of doing wrong (paap) that is considered to be a Great Knowledge.

Weakened anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays – the ones that gives pain to soul) is called religion and absence of anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays) is called (True) Knowledge (Gnan). If a religion cannot reduce anger-pride- deceit-greed (kashays), then either the religion is wrong or you are wrong. Religion is the one of the enlightened ones (the Vitraags); how can it be called as wrong?

The one whose kashays, (inner anger, pride, deceit, greed) are gone is worthy of worship. The absence of inner intent of kashays is indeed Gnani!

Kashays [anger-pride-deceit-greed] will not leave by suppressing them, they go away through Gnan (Enlightened Knowledge).

Without ‘Gnan’ (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away.

Scriptures are instruments, and to know how to use these instruments is itself a science. One has wandered for infinite lives because of not knowing this science!

Circumstances can be changed through agnan (ignorance of the Self) and they can be changed to gnan (knowledge of the Self). With agnan, circumstances will bring entanglement, and with gnan, the circumstances will bring solutions. Gnan can itself change circumstances. Is god likely ‘to come down’ and do so?